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Woodward to Publish Book on Trump White House September 11
Celebrated investigative Watergate journalist Bob Woodward is set to put Donald Trump's presidency under a microscope in the upcoming book Fear: Trump in the White House , which will be available for your reading pleasure on September 11 - just in time for midterm elections. [Full Article...]
Hamid Khazaei's death 'preventable'
Doctors for Refugees president Barri Phatarfod said Coroner Terry Ryan's report into the 2014 death of Iranian asylum seeker Hamid Khazaei was an indictment of Australia's risky health care provisions for people in immigration detention. Human Rights Watch claimed medical care on Manus has gotten "worse, not better", since Khazaei died while the Doctors for Refugees advocacy group called the findi... [Full Article...]
36 women, children kidnapped by IS last week in Syria's Sweida: monitor
Last week, the radical Islamic group launched a series of coordinated attacks against the city and some neighboring villages, including suicide bombings, which killed more than 250 people . Last week's attacks were the bloodiest ever in the province and among the deadliest waged by IS in Syria . IS has been driven from virtually all the territory it once controlled in Syria and Iraq, but hol... [Full Article...]
Adam Putnam's Trump rally rebuttal: DeSantis would bring 'Washington dysfunction' to Florida
The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University has performed extensive research showing that claims of pervasive "voter fraud - in which voters show up at the ballot box claiming to be someone else, voting a few times , or voting while ineligible - is a "myth", and that " most allegations of fraud turn out to be baseless". [Full Article...]
White House: Trump 'Stating His Opinion' in Sessions Tweet
The President's comments come just hours after the trial of former Trump insider Paul Manafort began in northern Virginia, with Trump adding "These old charges have nothing to do with Collusion". In June, a report by the Justice Department's Inspector General found that the texts " potentially indicated or created the appearance " of bias, but concluded any anti-Trump bias had no significant... [Full Article...]
Pence welcomes return of presumed Korean War dead
Unsurprisingly, this is false. But questions have deepened over Pyongyang's commitment after US spy satellite material detected renewed activity at the North Korean factory that produced the country's first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States. [Full Article...]
Jeremy Corbyn 'sorry' for sharing conference platform with anti-Zionist speaker
Mr Kinnock told BBC Radio Wales he thought Mr Corbyn would be "appalled and mortified", but his apology was not enough. Mr Corbyn issued a personal apology on Tuesday evening after it emerged he spoke at and opened a meeting in the House of Commons in 2010 which was part of a United Kingdom tour called "Never Again for Anyone - Auschwitz to Gaza". [Full Article...]
Australian Church Abuse Victims Welcome Archbishop's Resignation
His request was accepted and announced on Monday night. "His decision to resign comes after considering his future following his conviction for failing to report allegations of child sexual abuse that occurred in the 1970s", the ACBC said. [Full Article...]